Rock Star Ayla!!

Ayla was our Rockstar a few weeks back and she had a fabulous week! Her favorite color is purple and she loves the movie Frozen. Her favorite sport is sword fighting and she loves dogs! Ayla likes the book “Lion and the Place Between” and her mom even came in and read it to the class! She likes to eat macaroni and cheese, which of course is delicious! Her favorite song is Mad World by Gary Jules and if she could go anywhere she would go to Lost in Fun! Ayla is a special kid because she is a great big sister and she is a fun and smart little girl! When she grows up she wants to be a dentist! Ayla you ROCK!!

Rock Star Aydin!!

Aydin was our Rockstar of the week a few weeks back and we had a FABULOUS time learning all about her! She loves the color pink and her favorite book is Fancy Nancy! Her favorite movie is Cinderella and she also likes unicorns. She enjoys soccer and macaroni and cheese. Her favorite song is “Let It Go” which seems to be a common trend now days! She is a special kid because she loves her whole family and I just bet her whole family loves her so very much too! If she could go anywhere she would go to the mountains and when she grows up she wants to be a doctor! Aydin was an awesome Rockstar and she had a great week! You ROCK! Please check out her special video!

Rock Star Ariauna!!!

Ariauna was a GREAT rock star of the week!!!! It has been so long since she was the rock star, but I am FINALLY getting this up!!! Her favorite color is pink and she loves the book “Frozen!” Can you guess her favorite movie? You got it…..it is Frozen!!!!! Ariauna loves to play soccer and her favorite food is meatloaf. The animal she loves most is snakes (I am not a big fan of these J).  She loves the song “Let it Shine!” When she grows up she wants to be a dentist. If she could go anywhere in the world it would be Champions.  She is special because she is a great helper to her cousin Baylee Jo and she can hold her breath under water. Thanks for being such a great rock star Ariauna!!!! We are SO lucky to have you in our class!!!

Birthday Girl Jayne!!!

On October 15th Jayne celebrated her birthday with her kindergarten friends!! Her mom and sisters even came to school to celebrate with everyone!!! They even brought a surprise for everyone in the class!!! We hope you had a great birthday Jayne!!!

Silly Elf!!!

My friends think I am SPECIAL!!

I found him!!

With my mom and sisters!!!

Birthday Girl Ariauna!!!

I am behind on birthdays...but we still want to make sure that Ariauna had a GREAT birthday on October 4th!! Isis the Elf came to visit AND our friends had a great time making the birthday sign for Ariauna!! We all think she is a SUPER special girl!!

Ariauna with her class!!!

Birthday Girl with Isis!!

ISIS!!!

My friends ROCK!!!

More Learning!!!

I hope all of my friends enjoyed their 5 day break from school and they got to do something fun over Fall Break! I have missed seeing all of your smiling faces every day in kindergarten. Although, I really do love cuddling Presley every day!!  I can’t believe we are already starting the 2^nd quarter because I feel like school just started! Time goes by so quick when you are having fun!

This short week we will be reviewing a lot about our school rules! We will talk a lot about what kindergarteners look like and sound like when they are working!

We will be finishing up week 2 in Literacy and starting Week 3 – so I will post more on that next week – please just know we will keep on learning more about what good readers do! We will keep practicing our letters and sounds and blending them together to make words! Please continue to practice at home using the packet I sent home at Literacy night!

In Math we will be continuing to tell math stories using addition and subtraction. We will start comparing numbers to see if they are equal or not equal. We will review how to do dot-to-dots using straight lines and going in counting order and we will also practice making the number 7.

In Writing we will review what good writers do and we will also talk about what the teacher does during writing time – the teachers in the room during writing time will go around to individual students and conference with them about their writing (which is a fancy way to say talk about their writing). During the conference the teacher is going to give each student a helpful hint to help them become a better writer – for example using turtle talk, adding more details to the picture or taking your time when drawing, or even helping come up with a sentence to write. Now that we are in the 2^nd quarter we are going to start thinking of sentences to go with our stories – so we will think of a sentence and say it out loud a few times– then we will say it again and count how many words are in the sentence (this will help us remember what we are suppose to write hopefully). We will also hopefully be using our writer’s workshop folder as a tool to help us because it has an alphabet chart and all of our kindergarten words in there! I can’t wait to see all of the stories during writing time!

For Unit Studies we are going to jump back to Health and talk about drug safety – which ties in very well with Red Ribbon Week that is coming up. We will have discussions about drugs and how they can hurt our bodies if they are not used correctly. We will also be decorating our door this week with a drug free message and I encourage you to do the same at home – in the school newsletter you should have seen the information about this, but if you decorate your door and people vote for you – you have the chance to win money for Meadow Lane and an ipad for your family! This Friday the 17^th is also Inside Out day so please have your child wear their clothes inside out if you can!

It is sure to be a fun week – I am looking forward to another great quarter in Kindergarten!

I can't wait to come and visit all of you and hear all of the things you are learning!!!

Also....I am really working hard on updating the blog with videos. However, my computer decided to quit working so it is currently getting fixed:) Me and technology have not loved each other lately!!

Love- Mrs. Schroeder

Happy LATE Birthday Kalai!!!

We celebrated Kalai's birthday early because he got to take a awesome trip to Kansas City!! He had his family in to enjoy cupcakes with us!! His birthday was on September 29th (he shares a birthday with Presley:)) Sorry that I am posting this late Kalai! I hope that you had a wonderful birthday!!

Singing to the birthday boy!!!

Kalai with is birthday gift...all the things we love about Kalai!!

Isis the birthday elf!!!

Yummy cupcakes!!

Love- Mrs. Schroeder